diff --git a/content/variables/files.md b/content/variables/files.md
index 45bc03b6d..ac5376dbd 100644
--- a/content/variables/files.md
+++ b/content/variables/files.md
@@ -24,25 +24,25 @@ For information on creating shortcodes and templates that tap into Hugo's file-r
The `.File` object contains the following fields:
-`.File.Path`
+.File.Path
: the original relative path of the page (e.g., `content/posts/foo.en.md`)
-`.File.LogicalName`
+.File.LogicalName
: the name of the content file that represents a page (e.g., `foo.en.md`)
-`.File.TranslationBaseName`
+.File.TranslationBaseName
: the filename without extension or optional language identifier (e.g., `foo`)
-`.File.BaseFileName`
+.File.BaseFileName
: the filename without extension (e.g., `foo.en`)
-`.File.Ext`
+.File.Ext
: the file extension of the content file (e.g., `md`); this can also be called using `.File.Extension` as well. Note that it is *only* the extension without `.`.
-`.File.Lang`
+.File.Lang
: the language associated with the given file if Hugo's [Multilingual features][multilingual] are enabled (e.g., `en`)
-`.File.Dir`
+.File.Dir
: given the path `content/posts/dir1/dir2/`, the relative directory path of the content file will be returned (e.g., `posts/dir1/dir2/`)
[Multilingual]: /content-management/multilingual/
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diff --git a/content/variables/git.md b/content/variables/git.md
index a06ee104c..f9c154764 100644
--- a/content/variables/git.md
+++ b/content/variables/git.md
@@ -33,22 +33,22 @@ Hugo's Git integrations should be fairly performant but *can* increase your buil
The `GitInfo` object contains the following fields:
-`.AbbreviatedHash`
+.AbbreviatedHash
: the abbreviated commit hash (e.g., `866cbcc`)
-`.AuthorName`
+.AuthorName
: the author's name, respecting `.mailmap`
-`.AuthorEmail`
+.AuthorEmail
: the author's email address, respecting `.mailmap`
-`.AuthorDate`
+.AuthorDate
: the author date
-`.Hash`
+.Hash
: the commit hash (e.g., `866cbccdab588b9908887ffd3b4f2667e94090c3`)
-`.Subject`
+.Subject
: commit message subject (e.g., `tpl: Add custom index function`)
## `.Lastmod`
diff --git a/content/variables/hugo.md b/content/variables/hugo.md
index 55b80f8c2..c0c5c9601 100644
--- a/content/variables/hugo.md
+++ b/content/variables/hugo.md
@@ -21,16 +21,16 @@ wip: false
It contains the following fields:
-`.Hugo.Generator`
+.Hugo.Generator
: `` tag for the version of Hugo that generated the site. `.Hugo.Generator` outputs a *complete* HTML tag; e.g. ``
-`.Hugo.Version`
+.Hugo.Version
: the current version of the Hugo binary you are using e.g. `0.13-DEV`
-`.Hugo.CommitHash`
+.Hugo.CommitHash
: the git commit hash of the current Hugo binary e.g. `0e8bed9ccffba0df554728b46c5bbf6d78ae5247`
-`.Hugo.BuildDate`
+.Hugo.BuildDate
: the compile date of the current Hugo binary formatted with RFC 3339 e.g. `2002-10-02T10:00:00-05:00`
{{% note "Use the Hugo Generator Tag" %}}
diff --git a/content/variables/menus.md b/content/variables/menus.md
index f510d6a98..3c71079ae 100644
--- a/content/variables/menus.md
+++ b/content/variables/menus.md
@@ -20,31 +20,31 @@ toc: false
The [menu template][] has the following properties:
-`.URL`
+.URL
: string
-`.Name`
+.Name
: string
-`.Menu`
+.Menu
: string
-`.Identifier`
+.Identifier
: string
-`.Pre`
+.Pre
: template.HTML
-`.Post`
+.Post
: template.HTML
-`.Weight`
+.Weight
: int
-`.Parent`
+.Parent
: string
-`.Children`
+.Children
: Menu
[menu template]: /templates/menu-templates/
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diff --git a/content/variables/page.md b/content/variables/page.md
index 09b9635bc..76cf0e83b 100644
--- a/content/variables/page.md
+++ b/content/variables/page.md
@@ -26,65 +26,65 @@ See [`.Scratch`](/functions/scratch/) for page-scoped, writable variables.
## Page Variables
-`.AlternativeOutputFormats`
+.AlternativeOutputFormats
: contains all alternative formats for a given page; this variable is especially useful `link rel` list in your site's `
<!--more--> at the appropriate place in the content page. See [Content Summaries](/content-management/summaries/) for more details.
-`.TableOfContents`
+.TableOfContents
: the rendered [table of contents](/content-management/toc/) for the page.
-`.Title`
+.Title
: the title for this page.
-`.Translations`
+.Translations
: a list of translated versions of the current page. See [Multilingual Mode](/content-management/multilingual/) for more information.
-`.Truncated`
+.Truncated
: a boolean, `true` if the `.Summary` is truncated. Useful for showing a "Read more..." link only when necessary. See [Summaries](/content-management/summaries/) for more information.
-`.Type`
+.Type
: the [content type](/content-management/types/) of the content (e.g., `post`).
-`.URL`
+.URL
: the URL for the page relative to the web root. Note that a `url` set directly in front matter overrides the default relative URL for the rendered page.
-`.UniqueID`
+.UniqueID
: the MD5-checksum of the content file's path.
-`.Weight`
+.Weight
: assigned weight (in the front matter) to this content, used in sorting.
-`.WordCount`
+.WordCount
: the number of words in the content.
## Section Variables and Methods
diff --git a/content/variables/shortcodes.md b/content/variables/shortcodes.md
index cd9d01463..b194eb7db 100644
--- a/content/variables/shortcodes.md
+++ b/content/variables/shortcodes.md
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ toc: false
[Shortcodes][shortcodes] have access to parameters delimited in the shortcode declaration via [`.Get`][getfunction], page- and site-level variables, and also the following shortcode-specific fields:
-`.Parent`
+.Parent
: provides access to the parent shortcode context in nested shortcodes. This can be very useful for inheritance of common shortcode parameters from the root.
-`.IsNamedParams`
+.IsNamedParams
: boolean that returns `true` when the shortcode in question uses [named rather than positional parameters][shortcodes]
-`.Inner`
+.Inner
: represents the content between the opening and closing shortcode tags when a [closing shortcode][markdownshortcode] is used
[getfunction]: /functions/get/
diff --git a/content/variables/site.md b/content/variables/site.md
index 7e958b217..00b1d20e7 100644
--- a/content/variables/site.md
+++ b/content/variables/site.md
@@ -22,82 +22,82 @@ The following is a list of site-level (aka "global") variables. Many of these va
## Site Variables List
-`.Site.AllPages`
+.Site.AllPages
: array of all pages, regardless of their translation.
-`.Site.Author`
+.Site.Author
: a map of the authors as defined in the site configuration.
-`.Site.BaseURL`
+.Site.BaseURL
: the base URL for the site as defined in the site configuration.
-`.Site.BuildDrafts`
+.Site.BuildDrafts
: a boolean (default: `false`) to indicate whether to build drafts as defined in the site configuration.
-`.Site.Copyright`
+.Site.Copyright
: a string representing the copyright of your website as defined in the site configuration.
-`.Site.Data`
+.Site.Data
: custom data, see [Data Templates](/templates/data-templates/).
-`.Site.DisqusShortname`
+.Site.DisqusShortname
: a string representing the shortname of the Disqus shortcode as defined in the site configuration.
-`.Site.Files`
+.Site.Files
: all source files for the Hugo website.
-`.Site.GoogleAnalytics`
+.Site.GoogleAnalytics
: a string representing your tracking code for Google Analytics as defined in the site configuration.
-`.Site.IsMultiLingual`
+.Site.IsMultiLingual
: whether there are more than one language in this site. See [Multilingual](/content-management/multilingual/) for more information.
-`.Site.Language.Lang`
+.Site.Language.Lang
: the language code of the current locale (e.g., `en`).
-`.Site.Language.LanguageName`
+.Site.Language.LanguageName
: the full language name (e.g. `English`).
-`.Site.Language.Weight`
+.Site.Language.Weight
: the weight that defines the order in the `.Site.Languages` list.
-`.Site.Language`
+.Site.Language
: indicates the language currently being used to render the website. This object's attributes are set in site configurations' language definition.
-`.Site.LanguageCode`
+.Site.LanguageCode
: a string representing the language as defined in the site configuration. This is mostly used to populate the RSS feeds with the right language code.
-`.Site.LanguagePrefix`
+.Site.LanguagePrefix
: this can be used to prefix URLs to point to the correct language. It will even work when only one defined language. See also the functions [absLangURL](/functions/abslangurl/) and [relLangURL](/functions/rellangurl).
-`.Site.Languages`
+.Site.Languages
: an ordered list (ordered by defined weight) of languages.
-`.Site.LastChange`
+.Site.LastChange
: a string representing the date/time of the most recent change to your site. This string is based on the [`date` variable in the front matter](/content-management/front-matter) of your content pages.
-`.Site.Menus`
+.Site.Menus
: all of the menus in the site.
-`.Site.Pages`
+.Site.Pages
: array of all content ordered by Date with the newest first. This array contains only the pages in the current language.
-`.Site.Permalinks`
+.Site.Permalinks
: a string to override the default [permalink](/content-management/urls/) format as defined in the site configuration.
-`.Site.RegularPages`
+.Site.RegularPages
: a shortcut to the *regular* page collection. `.Site.RegularPages` is equivalent to `where .Site.Pages "Kind" "page"`.
-`.Site.RSSLink`
+.Site.RSSLink
: the URL for the site RSS.
-`.Site.Sections`
+.Site.Sections
: top-level directories of the site.
-`.Site.Taxonomies`
+.Site.Taxonomies
: the [taxonomies](/taxonomies/usage/) for the entire site. Replaces the now-obsolete `.Site.Indexes` since v0.11. Also see section [Taxonomies elsewhere](#taxonomies-elsewhere).
-`.Site.Title`
+.Site.Title
: a string representing the title of the site.
## The `.Site.Params` Variable
diff --git a/content/variables/sitemap.md b/content/variables/sitemap.md
index 5eda0e280..dd926f2b3 100644
--- a/content/variables/sitemap.md
+++ b/content/variables/sitemap.md
@@ -20,13 +20,13 @@ toc: false
A sitemap is a `Page` and therefore has all the [page variables][pagevars] available to use sitemap templates. They also have the following sitemap-specific variables available to them:
-`.Sitemap.ChangeFreq`
+.Sitemap.ChangeFreq
: the page change frequency
-`.Sitemap.Priority`
+.Sitemap.Priority
: the priority of the page
-`.Sitemap.Filename`
+.Sitemap.Filename
: the sitemap filename
[pagevars]: /variables/page/
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diff --git a/content/variables/taxonomy.md b/content/variables/taxonomy.md
index 18a978e8d..1cfa56c51 100644
--- a/content/variables/taxonomy.md
+++ b/content/variables/taxonomy.md
@@ -24,22 +24,22 @@ toc: true
For example, the following fields would be available in `layouts/_defaults/terms.html`, depending on how you organize your [taxonomy templates][taxonomytemplates]:
-`.Data.Singular`
+.Data.Singular
: The singular name of the taxonomy (e.g., `tags => `tag`)
-`.Data.Plural`
+.Data.Plural
: The plural name of the taxonomy (e.g., `tags => tags`)
-`.Data.Pages`
+.Data.Pages
: The list of pages in the taxonomy
-`.Data.Terms`
+.Data.Terms
: The taxonomy itself
-`.Data.Terms.Alphabetical`
+.Data.Terms.Alphabetical
: The taxonomy terms alphabetized
-`.Data.Terms.ByCount`
+.Data.Terms.ByCount
: The Terms ordered by popularity
Note that `.Data.Terms.Alphabetical` and `.Data.Terms.ByCount` can also be reversed: